Congress of Russian Communities

The Congress of Russian Communities (CRC, Russian: Конгресс русских общин, КРО, romanized: Kongress russkikh obschin, KRO) is a political organization in Russia. It was created in the early 1990s initially to promote the rights of ethnic Russians living in the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union.

The group contested a number of elections to the Duma in the 1990s. In the 1995 Duma election, the group took 4.3% of the vote, just missing the 5% threshold to gain seats. In 1999 it again failed to pass the 5% threshold, although KRO candidates did win a small number of single-mandate district seats.

In 1996 Alexander Lebed used the KRO as the organisational vehicle for his campaign for the presidency. Lebed was surprisingly successful, taking 15% of the popular vote and later going on to become governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai.

In 2006 the KRO was revived by Russian nationalist politician Dmitry Rogozin following the merger of his Rodina party into a new Fair Russia coalition. Rogozin initially stated that he would turn the KRO into a political party to contest the Duma elections in December 2007.

In April 2007 Rogozin announced that he had formed a new party, the Great Russia Party, in conjunction with the nationalistMovement Against Illegal Immigration. The party would campaign for seats in the Duma and initially stated its support for Alexander Lukashenko's candidacy for the Russian Presidency, a campaign which is impossible as Lukashenko is not a Russian citizen.

On December 9, 2006, the restoration congress of the Russian communities under the new name “ Rodina (“Motherland”): Congress of Russian Communities” was held; Dmitry Rogozin is not officially included in its leadership, but he is an informal leader.^[1]

في 21 سبتمبر/أيلول 2011، وبمشاركة ديمتري روغوزين ، عُقد المؤتمر التأسيسي لحركة "الوطن الأم - مؤتمر الجاليات الروسية"، حيث تم تشكيل اللجنة المنظمة لإعادة إحياء حزب "رودينا" . اتهم ديمتري روغوزين زعيم حزب "روسيا العادلة"، سيرغي ميرونوف ، بالاستيلاء على حزب "رودينا" بطريقة غير شرعية. ^{[ 2 ]} وفي المؤتمر، دعا ديمتري روغوزين مؤتمر الجاليات الروسية إلى الانضمام إلى " الجبهة الشعبية لعموم روسيا" ، التي تأسست لدعم المرشح الرئاسي فلاديمير بوتين . ^{[ 3 ]}

في عام 2011، سجلت وزارة العدل رسمياً مؤتمر الجاليات الروسية. ^{[ 4 ]}

في أبريل 2012، قدمت اللجنة المنظمة لمؤتمر "رودينا" للجاليات الروسية مذكرة إلى وزارة العدل في الاتحاد الروسي بشأن إعادة تأسيس الحزب السياسي "رودينا". ^{[ 5 ]}